PROVENANCE:
Bonham’s San Francisco
9029
A GLASS OVERLAY ‘CAT AND BUTTERFLY’ SNUFF BOTTLE
QING DYNASTY (1800-1850) |
The opaque glass with a flat lip and wide protruding foot, finely carved through the overlay with a potted flowering plant above which an egret and auspicious bat flitters, the reverse with a seated plump cat on the pierced garden rockworks with flowering outcrops looking upon a pair of butterflies and auspicious bat, flanked by animal masks suspending ring handles on the narrow sides. |
Estimate
27,000 - 42,000 105,000 - 164,000 3,500 - 5,400
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